Engineering herbicide-resistant maize using chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotides

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 555-558

  Zhu, Tong ^a,b   Mettenburg, Kathryn ^a   Peterson, David J ^a   Tagliani, Laura ^a   Baszczynski, Chris L ^a  

^a PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetohydroxyacid synthase; Chimeraplasty; Gene modification; Genetic inheritance; Herbicide resistance

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; DNA; HERBICIDE; IMIDAZOLINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMERAPLASTY; CROP; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POINT MUTATION; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HERBICIDES; IMIDAZOLES; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZEA MAYS;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034122866     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75435     Document Type: Article

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